iOS 7 beta 3 needs iPhone 5, 4S crashing fix

Over the weekend we heard that iOS 7 beta 3 should go live for download in 7 days time, and this would signal an increased release timescale by Apple when compared to iOS 6 beta launches last year. It is not clear why this might be, but some people think it could be thanks to a number of bugs and problems needing fixes sooner rather than later.

Our in house developer has been testing the iOS 7 betas with Phones Review apps, and to date he’s pretty impressed with the radical redesign of the UI, settings and icons. There’s been some problems that included an issue deleting messages in iOS 7 beta 1 for iPhone 5 and 4S, but this saw a fix with the iOS 7 beta 2 changes.

They note a few differences with iOS 7 on iPhone 5 vs. 4S, which includes the lack of AirDrop on the 4S model and there’s hopes this might change considering it defeats the object of AirDrop’s apparent usability.

Apple should fix this bug in iOS 7 beta 3 – one thing that is the same with iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 is crashing issues. In our experience this seems to happen randomly when using the camera in iOS 7, browsing the web in Safari, using apps and in many other situations on both iPhone 5 and 4S.

This problem leads to a black display with just an Apple logo for about a minute, then the phone boots back to your home screen. While we haven’t seen any pattern yet on the iPhone’s our developer keeps experiencing this on, it is a clear crash considering the phone just restarts.

If you are using iOS 7 beta 2 let us know if you are seeing crashing problems? This is of course a question for our readers that develop for Apple, although we could see a fix land with the iOS 7 beta 3 changes that should release for download next Monday, July 8.

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243 thoughts on “iOS 7 beta 3 needs iPhone 5, 4S crashing fix”

I currently have an iPhone 4S with iOS 7 Beta 2 and I’m having a lot of app crashing. When the app crashes, the screen freezes and then goes black with the apple logo . After a minute or so the home screen appears. Other then that, I like iOS 7

ios 7 beta 2 iphone 4s. camera app crashes and other apps crash as well. black screen appears when sharing to fb from the photo gallery. when opening the iphone to the lock screen from idle the screen sometimes is blank only showing wallpaper. videos in the music folder do not landscape mode. it turns pitch black. closed safari pages can reappear after safari is relaunched but they disappear after a few seconds. the swipe upward gesture to the controls feature is still buggy but better than beta 1.

i take my mp4 music vids and change them in itunes under the get info section from home vids to music vids so i can sync them to my iphone in the music folder instead of the video folder. i do this so i can either listen to the videos as audio or i can watch the videos and have them all in a playlist. the video app does not allow playlist

I have the feeling that the cpu of my 4s has more work to do. The phone is becoming very hot after a few minutes doing some simple things (like whatt’s app). This wasn’t the case with the 6.1.3 (at least not this fast). Beside this I have the “standard” crash of the camera app.

I have it running on an iPhone 5. It has random crashing but it mostly the music and camera app. It actually restarts in a couple seconds. And only happens once or twice a day, I can deal with it but I really hope they fix it.
Other problems I hope they fix are:
The calendar app does not show A useable monthly view. My appointments. Don’t show
Selecting text is sometimes off.
My phone gets hot
The lack of a “Stop all app” function.
Short battery life (explains bigger battery in 5S)
My eBay app doesn’t work
I can’t remember what else at the moment

Bugs
1. Random Crashing. (Although iOS6 has this every now and then!)
2. Sometimes swipe to get into the phone just shows an empty wallpaper (bubble animation) and I have to reboot to swipe in.
3. Icon folder sometimes opens half off the screen.
4. Camera hanging.
5. Safari is VERY slow to respond. Have to use Chrome, which is slower than on iOS6.
6. Calendar does not show dots on events in month view. Which is VERY ugly. And sometimes I have to go forward a month and back again to see daily events.

Performance (iPhone 4s) – hopefully just due to beta code.
1. Animation zooming in and out of apps is jittery.
2. All Apps seem slow to respond.

ok guys, relax with the crashing “phenomenon”. It is basically similar to when the springboard crashes on and jailbroken idevice. I experience it too, somewhat annoying, but to get your device back with less crashing, do a full reboot. Sometimes it crashes so frequently but after rebooting, i find that things start working again.

Crashing problems on iPhone 5,
Wallpaper occasionally goes black and disappears,
Lock screen music controls lag
Apps not working
Phone gets hot
Battery was good, but after second charge it was worse than beta 1
Control centre does not work when you go to the home screen after multitasking, you need to swipe the screen a little before it will come up

My phone gets a little hot, it crashes randomly when I’m either using the maps app or deleting an email, taking a picture through a text message, etc.

It does not allow me to send emails through the mailbox native app, it does not allow me to delete a city in my weather native app, the text messages on the top where the names are keeps combining all the names and appears as a big blur (I literally have to close the app and reopen it). And I do get a black background display and I’m not sure if it’s just with the apple dynamic background or if it’s happening to everyone using a static as well.

Same issues as the others on the 4S. Various apps and camera functions are crashing regularly. Touch screen in areas randomly bugs out (is unresponsive) and I have to minimize and reopen the app to get it back, and trying to clear my open apps isn’t working correctly either. Really hoping this next update fixes the problems!

Weird, I replied to this yesterday, but it didn’t show up… anyway, I believe I responded with something along the lines of thanks for the info, I wasn’t aware of that, and I wonder still if that’s why the AirDrop icon isn’t showing up – maybe it can’t be initiated from a non-wifi-direct device?

Actually, I see you pulled that from the description of how wifi-direct works, not Airdrop. Apple could easily (and it appears they will) simply not allow the AirDrop feature on the 4S and prior. So despite what you’re saying to be true about wifi-direct in general, it doesn’t appear Apple is going to live by that idea.

Worst ios beta’s i have seen
Crashing left right and centre, no ebay app screen refresh freeze, top line of many apps blocked out with network/battery info network & battery info hangs on right side of phone when changing from landscape to portrait mode, top half of screen out of focus when in keypad mode, too many to mention. Some issues fixed on 2nd beta but plenty still to do. C’mon apple really tired of seeing apple logo when trying to use my phone.
TVRman Stockport

I’ve experienced the same as most people here on my 4s running beta 2, in addition I also experience a mail crash when performing search for a keyword. What I find interesting is people using beta and complaining 🙂 Its Beta for developers to report these bugs, no need to complain until the completed version is released.

Crashing is a MAJOR issue. at one point the entire thing went dark and I had to restart it. Texting is a huge issue for me too, sometimes it gets stuck sending messages and other times it just crashes. The performance is LAGGY and I can’t have a lot of programs running.

Yes, noticing beta 2 is VERY unstable on my 4S. In addition to the Camera, Apple Maps is another app that often fails to display and will lead to a crash. And once a crash is experienced, find it’s best to perform a home – power button forced reboot to stabilize things until the next hang/crash… very annoying… trying to hang in until beta 3 is released next week…

third party app crash a lot , camara opens slow, and sometimes it reboots, texting get keyboard slow and in the top right corner sometimes gets overlap info. , its normal on beta but i think this time its worst than io6 betas

iphone 5 – beta 2 – When i am using safari or if i am using an app and then i get a text message, well the notification won’t pop up in the top like how i have it set up, nor vibrate unless i don’t use any app or unless i check my message box manually. pretty annoying…

also when i create an event on my calendar the old ios version use to display my event on the calendat (like a red dot or something letting me know that i have something scheduled) but when i open my calendar on iphone 5 beta 2 it doesn’t show me none of my events unless i remember when and what time the event is and open that day up for me to see it. i hate this alot.

It’s a beta. If you want stability go back to iOS 6. Betas are unstable and if you really rely on your phone then you probably should go back to something more stable and then try again in iOS 7 beta 3

My iPad Crashes a lot! If i’m in iTunes Radio, it crashes! If on some app(any app) it crashes! i dont like it! in genera iOS 7 beta 2 is not smooth in my iPad 2! iOS 7 beta 3 better rock my world with fixes!

Im guessing most of you restored from a backup when installing ios 7. That is your problem. I have been running both ios beta 1 & 2 on my iphone 5 with no problems. If your not a dev, you shouldnt be playing around with this software. NEVER RESTORE FROM BACKUP WHEN UPDATING TO A BETA.

I’m having crashes every time I try to search in mail.
Also crashing when inputting search in maps.
Apart from that beta two is an improvement. Huge Siri speed bump between beta 1 and 2
Minor bugs with Siri not being able to function from lock screen.

Swipe to answer call apparently freezes and phone doesn’t connect to call at all when phone is locked. when unlocked and you press answer button phone is unresponsive as well and the call doesn’t pick up either.

Maybe you shouldn’t be calling us developers stupid especially when we are the ones who are working our arses off to have our apps ready for when iOS 7 actually releases. Technically you can’t do whatever you want with iOS 7 when you downloaded and installed you agreed to the fact that you would only be installing this on your device for the purpose of testing your apps. I’m not saying that can’t have it but I don’t see what good it is for you to report bugs. Apple already knows about them but it takes along time to go through and fix bugs. Maybe you should try and fix a whole OS some time?

Andre Enginco which carrier. I had this a few weeks ago with AT&T but it was a carrier issue. I was using iOS 6.1.4 and my co-workers on AT&T were experiencing the same thing within a 15 mile radius. AT&T is in the process of upgrading many towers around the nation. I would start with the carrier.

I had a really bad experience today actually. My iPhone 5 turned off and rebooted, but it actually got stuck in an infinite reboot cycle. Very frustrated, only fix was to wipe out. Haven’t heard of anyone else with this problem, not sure what triggered it.

Rarely, iMessage stopped working on my phone and now sends SMS texts to all my old iMessage contacts. It is very annoying. The crashing camera thing is also terrible, Instagram (and other apps) crash when they try to use the camera.

sometimes when we use the application in landscape mode and then return to home screen, the network, time and battery notification are in landscape mode rest everything is normal. Sometimes these notifications does not shows up at all.
I agree to the app crashing and phone reboots.
Another thing if you are watching a video or have a picture opened in safari or any page. You close the page or tab and then switch to the homescreen. Now, if we go ahead and close the applications, we do not see the normal safari bookmark but the last page that was visited.

i installed ios 7 beta 2 on my iPhone 4. it’s in beta so I had no great operating expectations but my major problem was that once the phone crashed and the Apple logo appeared, it stayed there and the phone would not restart. On one occasion, i had a completely black screen, I called the iPhone from a land line which showed that the line was ringing but there was absolutely no indication from the phone that it was receiving an incoming call.

with regard to the crashing and staying on the black screen, the only way to bring back ios7 was to connect the phone to iTunes and reinstall ios7. I did this twice last Saturday, the phone was working fine until Sunday afternoon until i decided to take a picture using the Camera app, the phone crashed, again Apple logo, again it wouldn’t restart, reconnected to iTunes, reinstalled ios7, all was fine until i opened the Music app (i use iTunes Match), i listened to about 10 songs & whilst it was playing the 11th song,it crashed again (issues with Apple logo all over again…)

I have to be honest and say that apart from the crashing issue, I had no other issues with ios7, which did not slow the phone down at all and was changing screens as fast as it used to in ios6

Same problem was occuring with me.. but its not necssary to re-nstall ios7 again and again when the black screen appers. You just have to hold the home button and power button until the apple logo appears on screen.
and the phone will restart.. but to be on safer side.. i downgraded to ios6 which i think is more faster and reliable than 7’s beta versions.

iPhone 4S 7 Beta 2 crashes constantly, unusable, unresponsive at lock screen broken all compatibility with my car radio via usb. Monitoring apps show that the RAM is CONSTANTLY! (even from a reboot) full, ill get 8MB free if im lucky even with everything (apps) closed and disabled features like siri etc.

The problem with crashing in beta 2 is that when you close an app the OS is not “cleaning up after itself” very effectively. By monitoring RAM usage you will see that when you close all your open apps the unsused RAM does not go up by very much. This leads the device to restart in order to clean data out of the RAM

1) it crashes with camera, safari, Message and on some apps like games and music.
2) Battery timing is really less then IOS 6.1.3. I will say its 50% less then the time battery gives on IOS 6.
3) processing is really slow even in beta 2.
4) Game center is crashing.

1) it crashes with camera, safari, Message and on some apps like games and music.
2) Battery timing is really less then IOS 6.1.3. I will say its 50% less then the time battery gives on IOS 6.
3) processing is really slow even in beta 2.
4) Game center is crashing.

I join the others in saying that crashes are quite frequent, more than beta 1! Also,
Do you also get the info on the top part of the screen (battery, signal etc) to move sometimes on the other side of the screen? Does this mean they’re planning to have the “desktop” in horizontal mode like iPads? That would be cool since right now u can only do it inside apps, not on home screen! (Mine is iPhone 5)

Michael, I am so glad you mentioned this. I ended up having to boot into DFU mode just to get my phone to unlock again. Rebooting it doesn’t fix it when it’s in the state where you cannot unlock. Thanks for this tip so much!

2) Matt – with regards to battery life, mine seems fine, but I followed the advice of a fellow user. If you put the phone in recovery mode first, then restore using the latest iOS 6 followed by a restore with iOS 7, you shouldn’t experience these problems.

As this is only beta 2 it’s relatively pointless to consider using it as an everyday system over iOS6 (although beta 3 may be close to faultless).

I have a 4S. I frequently have crashing problems including: When I use the camera, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Wells Fargo App, and Pinterest. The phone will crash and turn to the black screen with the apple logo. I also have problems with the phone freezing. ALL THE TIME. And I also have problems with iMessage. I do not get iMessages, and if I do it’s only for a few texts. I also have problems receiving and sending texts. Overall, I’m redownloading the iOS 6 because I cannot stand this beta. Hopefully beta 3 will be better but until then, DO NOT DOWNLOAD BETA 2.

I am using a 4S with ios7 beta2 and it keeps on crashing or sometimes even becomes unresponsive only to be reset. not very happy here since I cant go back either (iCloud backup requires iOS7 to restore even if I went back, making it useless)

It crashes whenever I try to do anything that requires a bit of processing power. I can’t even select a song from my music to use for an alarm since that apparently is too much for it to handle. Sometimes when listening to music and doing nothing else the app will crash.

I am using Beta 2 and I too have crashing issue, which appears to be random. Also, I get screen freezes some time. On emails, sometimes the reply option disappears and the only way to get is back is to close the application down and restart it. Lots of apps are unstable in Beta 2 and some don’t even start up…

One other issue I’ve seen with beta 2 is that apps don’t adjust to the top bar when in a call or tethering occasionally, some do in a way that cuts off the app. Issues I’ve never seen with the older iOS’s.

iPhone 5 Beta 2
– Crashes when you want to see a year overview in agenda.
– Not sure if it’s normal but the sound of locking and unlocking your screen comes like 2 seconds after.
– Music player stops while selecting songs.

I got the same problem…. I can’t open anything except from SIRI… I used Siri to activate the touch once and it worked… now… it happened for the second time and it seems not working that well… now it turns it self on and off

When it comes to app store i did not encounter any problem when it comes to downloading and installing apps. There’s a lot of incompatibilities when it comes to the applications of course, when ios 7 release officially apps also will be updated.

the ebay app just will not load and i also sometimes have an issue when i wake up in the morning and go to check my phone, that the touch screen no longer works. restarting doesnt solve this and i have to plug it back into my mac where it then suddenly starts working again after it crashes for around 30 seconds.

It’s a beta, there’s bound to be crashes. The lockscreen issue, is a glitch when you have low battery, the message fails to show on the lockscreen so you cannot dismiss it therefore freezing your lockscreen. Plug it in to a charger, and hold the home and power button for a few seconds together until it restarts. No restore needed, then it’ll work. If you can’t figure out how to work around it, don’t complain about apple being “buggy”. It’s a beta, a pre-release version meant so developers who know what they are doing can fix these bugs before it’s released to us.

Running this on my iphone 4 and it is very glitchy. not complaning because i know its a beta and the iphone 4 probably doesnt have the capabilites to run it as good as the 4s/5. turns itself off, have to hold the home and lock button for 40 seconds+ for it to turn back on (has caused many panicks), camera crashes, sometimes the screen locks and so you cannot open the phone, imessage is very laggy – sometimes loads msgs from days before first before updating itself. i could go on..

Why is everyone discussing bugs here? Send bug reports through the Apple developer portal. If you’re not an Apple developer, this is precisely why they use UDID registration: It’s pre-release software, not intended for use on your daily device without assuming a considerable amount of risk.

i get loads of crashes, the orientation often gets stuck meaning i have to reboot, and sometimes the home and volume buttons stop working which also causes me to have to reboot it. This is all on my Ipad Mini (WiFi only) so i dont know if this affects anybody else? I am also often not able to get access to the notification center or control center which is also very annoying.

I have been experiencing multiple crashed daily. I was tempted to restore back to iOS6 today, until I read a Beta 3 release in a few days. I have a 4s and the crashes happen when toggling through apps. I think this Beta is worse than the first version. Cant wait to see what a smooth operation system feels like…

I typically have a problem where it boots me out of an app, then kicks me to the home screen. This issue repeats itself constantly on affected apps. Also, I experienced a serious problem where my i-device was essentially ‘bricked’ and I had to boot it up into restore mode and bring it back to 6.1.3 in order for it to work.

I have so many problems with Beta 2 its rediculous. The screen will freeze, the touchscreen will randomly stop working, the music app will open but no music will play, random apps will crash, safari crashes a ton, chrome has been virtually useless! Beta 1 worked better than 2 has.

Several apps will not work on iOS 7 or have reduced performance. I cannot get Skype to load past the IM screen and YouTube keeps buffering all the videos. Also, the status bar turns black and never goes away in any landscape app. Also any app that uses the camera crashes after you attempt to use the camera. I am using iOS 7 beta 2 on my iPhone 4S and it is the worst mistake ever. I hope beta 3 is better. I hope…

hi i am using beta 2 on a 4s, it crashes a lot. the iphone reboots constantly. a lot of apps crash. the phone its sometimes impossible to press end. the phone app crashed and the whole screen looked like a very pixeled huge phone icon. whatsapp is not working i try to open it and crashes automatically. the camera crashes a lot. and siri is not useful it is very slow and gets confused.

I had beta 2 on the iPhone 5 and it’s very unstable. Apps would freeze, siri wouldn’t do some of my commands, and it used up a lot of battery power. I went back to 6.1.4 because it started to become a hassle. I did enjoy the fresh new take on the UI though.

Hi, I have a 4s and I’m having a problem with all of my applications being choppy whenever i load them, Whenever i am on the lock screen and i click skip, sometimes it fast forward’s through all of the song and i have to turn off my device to stop it, and i have a problem with messages when it doesn’t tell me when my text are being received.

pray to god these bugs get fixed! I can’t take pictures, my caller ID is missing, twitter keeps signing me out, the only thing working perfectly fine is facebook messenger app. The battery dies faster than a black guy in a horror movie!!! fml

this is meant for developers to be used on devices strictly for the purpose of developing apps. why in holy hell would you put this on the phone that you use for personal crap THEN complain that the beta doesn’t work? what’s wrong with you?

It’s a forum a place to tell issues stop clenching up that tight butt and let people say what they want are all of you so stupid that you don’t think they know its a beta chill man you’ll live longer and happier

I don’t know if it’s just me but the pause and play button on ear pods seems to not work when I use it with my device on ios 7 but it seems to be fine on everything else. Others wise I’m thouruly impreseed by it.

My 4S crashes continuously when opening the camera. Only a complete restart of the phone allows the app to be opened (until the next time). The camera app opens but all you can see is a black screen with the white camera button, until it crashes. Highly annoying if you need to take a quick picture.

Hello there 😀
I have an iPhone 4 and had ios 7 b1 and then ios 7 b2 on it. I ended up downgrading to 6.1.3. because every now and then, about twice a day, the phone would just stop working. the only thing that worked was the lock button, the home button and assistive touch. i certainly hope that this will be gone in ios 7 b3 so that i can find other bugs 😉

I’ve had a few issues myself. When using maps and listening to music maps would just reset itself leaving me to re-enter my destination. Also when using maps anytime I received a message a blank lock screen would come up. When listening to music I’ve had numerous instances where a track would keeping skipping like a scratched cd. I’ve also had an issue while using the camera. It’s kick me back out to the lock screen and all touch features on the phone were unresponsive until I turned off the phone and plugged it in.

What are you all complaining about, betas are called BETA for a pretty good reason, it’s not meant to be installed on your phone as your main OS if you don’t know the first thing about iOS development. If you can’t handle the bugs in betas, stop upgrading to it by means you’re not supposed to use, let alone whining about it.

Battery drainage is wicked. It doesnt matter what the app is the phone will crash, restart, or just sit there on a frozen screen. Would be cool to get Airdrop for the 4s though. Other than that its cool. No complaints really its just a phone and a new OS in its baby stages still. If anything if it was to completely stop functioning properly, there is always that trusty dusty flip phone,lol

Hi guys. I’m using IOS 7 BETA 2 and I’ve been experiencing issues with battery life black screen and some app don’t open like ebay in my iphone 5. Other things is the audio in speaker when playing music the volume goes down sometimes. The youtube app have a defect in the search bar it appear only the half.

I have been using iOS 7 beta 2 and have experienced the same crashing issue discussed above. All of a sudden my phone restarts once the apple logo appears.
Another issue is some apps just crash on opening, for eg. Skype but that I dont know if its related the iOS or the app itself which might need an update for iOS 7. I use whatsapp frequently and have noticed some bug in the keyboard while typing. Once I type something and send it and then go back and then open that persons chat box again, the typing area disappears and its just the keyboard.

I have also noticed a weird landscape mode in multitasking which I feel may be an indication that Apple is trying to get in the landscape mode for phones like Android. Other than that there a few glitches here and there but I like the overall change and look. Specially the multitasking windows really help and the swiping options in safari.

I’m running iOS 7 beta 2 and who wouldn’t unless you never heard of beta 2 was out. Anyway iOS 7 Beta 2 is fine all it needs is a more smoother UI performance. Like when using Safari, when switching to other pages it glitches a little. Another fix i want to see is Siri new voice to be more common. Next is Task bar Glitches real bad and needs to be smoother/ better rendering. Next is if there going to use parallax, they need to implement a new type of way of making it not make the device hot and save battery. One reason why apps/games crash is because of the use of parallax. Parallax uses allot of ram which apps need for good performance. There going to have to make iOS 7 to have a smarter UI to render apps better. I turned off Parallax and I can play GTA Vice City without losing so much frames that there is no texture in the game. Well that’s my input there more things I would state but im going to keep it short!!!

Calendar App when viewing in Year mode. Crash. When playing music and multitask screen selecting various apps…crash. Calendar App Day view mode has 1 2 3 with no AM or PM. Calendar app when you create an event it doesn’t show on your monthly view, only when you select day view you see it super tiny. Calendar app when editing a reoccurring event it only changes for that one day and doesn’t apply for other reoccurring dates.

Running ios7 B2, when I try to delete Melbourne from the weather, the app crashes and doesnt save the previously deleted Sydney and Canberra cities. Trick is can only delete those 2 cities but Melbourne is stuck there..

I cannot answer calls in beta 3. The screen shows incoming call but the phone does not ring. When answered it shows 2 calls from the person calling, both on hold and won’t merge them or take them off hold.

It works really well on my iPhone 4s but I just can’t get Siri to work at all. Hold down the home button the very first time the phone is powered on brings up Siri and the wavy speech line and then it just disappears. Subsequent attempts to bring it up just doesn’t work at all, all the happens from then on when you hold down the Home button is a flash on the screen – but no Siri

I have iOS 7 on the iPhone 4 and every couple hours the entire screen goes blank and all I have is the status bar at the top of my screen and wallpaper background. Then, if I hold the power button and home button, it turns off the apple logo comes up and it stays there, frozen. Then the only way I can fix it is restoring to 6.1.3 and then going back up to 7.0 beta 3. This is very frustrating.

Running beta 3 on iphone5â€”I’m getting a complete crash, where phone is completely inactive, no apple icon, just black screen. Lock and home buttons do not trigger any actions.

I haven’t been able to find a pattern so far. Happens, not only when phone use is heavy, but also when phone hasn’t been touched for a long period of time. Sometimes it lasts for less that 30 seconds, other times it lasts for about 15-20 minutes.

Even with the latest update of ios7 to 7.0.2; my iphone 5 keeps crashing a lot.
Taking pictures, with safari, suddenly crash to a black display and reboot to apple logo for about a minute, then the phone boots again and again…. until i force restart.

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